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Resistance to Conventionality in the Sociology of Law: A Rejoinder to Horwitz

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Allan Horwitz and I are in full agreement about the value of studying the extralegal sources of statutory law (such as vagrancy legislation) or of governmental social control (whether or not it is identified as law). A good deal of my own work has concerned just this (Greenberg, 1977; 1980; forthcoming; Humphries and Greenberg, 1981; forthcoming; Loftin et al., 1981).

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Copyright © 1983 The Law and Society Association.

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